Wednesday, November 6, 2013

a couple of illustrations for amelia gregory's review of the cheapside hoard exhibition at the museum of london, dedicated to the contents of a buried wooden box discovered by workmen under a london building site in 1912: a collection of more than 400 pieces of elizabethan and jacobean (16th-17th c.) jewelry. the hoard, which is being displayed together for the first time in more than 100 years, will be on view through april 2014.

3 comments:

You post the most fascinating stuff, Yelena! How I wish I were in London to see this fabulous exhibit. Thanks for sharing about this. And it goes without saying...your "jewelry girls" are wonderful. Love the grape earrings!